נְאָקָה
nᵉʼâqâh · H5009 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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groaning, moaning
Action by which humans make a deep inarticulate sound caused by pain, grief, or severe suffering
ExamplesExodus 2:24 So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Exodus 6:5 “Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who tormented and oppressed them.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- הֶםtheir 2
- בֵּןson 1
- חָלָלslain, wounded 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- נְהָמָה nᵉhâmâh · H5100 · roaring, growling, groaning
- Both terms denote vocal expressions of distress or agitation, describing overlapping acoustic phenomena of human suffering.
- אֲנָקָה ʼănâqâh · H603 · sighing, groaning, moaning
- Both terms denote groaning or sighing sounds, two distinct Hebrew words overlapping in core sense and able to substitute for each other in context.
- אֲנָחָה ʼănâchâh · H585 · sighing, groaning, moaning
- Both terms denote sounds of groaning, sighing, or mourning, overlapping in the vocabulary of lamentation and distress.
- יְלָלָה yᵉlâlâh · H3215 · wailing, howling
- Both terms denote audible human expressions of distress or lament — howling and groaning are overlapping sound-types in the register of lamentation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- נְאָקָה denotes groaning as a sound of distress, used of Israel's groaning under Egyptian bondage (Exodus 2:24, 6:5), tying the word to an audible expression of suffering.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5009. neaqah נְאָקָה noun feminine groan, groaning; — construct נַאֲקַת Exo 6:5; suffix…
נְאָקָה noun feminine groan, groaning; — construct נַאֲקַת Exo 6:5; suffix נַאֲקָתָם Exo 2:24; Jdg 2:18; plural construct נַאֲקוֺת Eze 30:24; — groaning of oppressed people Exo 2:24; Exo 6:5; Jdg 2:18; of a wounded man Eze 30:24; (ᵐ5 Co בִּזָּה וּבָזַז for נַאֲקוֺת וְנָאַק ᵑ0 but compare Berthol).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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